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2024/12/29 at 5:33 pm #128238KevinParticipant
I am troubleshooting Dante as the goal is to use some of the virtual Dante features on a Mac. In the process I get same subnet errors, yet today the Avantis successfully connects to another board.
Why a network port and a Dante port, especially connected to the same switch? There is only one IP setting on the Avantis. It doesn’t indicate that it’s Dante. The manual doesn’t seem to distinguish.
The goal is to properly config and isolate the Dante network. Thanks
2024/12/30 at 1:48 pm #128260BrianParticipantEach Dante card will need it’s own unique internet address in addition to the console’s internet address. If you have the card’s switch set to combine those networks, then the two addresses will be in the same subnet. If you want to isolate the Dante network, you need to make sure that switch is not set to combine/bridge the two networks, and then you need to make sure the two networks (Dante and regular) are either physically isolated (using a different switch/router for each) or isolated using unique VLANs for each network (if your network supports and is set up for VLANs). There is no way to isolate the Dante network if you plug everything into the same non-VLAN enabled switch.
Just like the console’s Dante card, every other Dante device will need to be connected to the isolated Dante network. This means if you also want your Mac computer to have access to the rest of the facility’s network (for internet access for example), then you will need a secondary way of connecting to the facility’s other isolated internets. This might be through Wifi if the computer has that built in, or it might be through a second internet adapter (via USB for example). Long story short, you’ll need two unique ways of connecting the Mac computer to two unique and isolated networks – one for Dante and one for regular use.
2024/12/30 at 3:40 pm #128263ericdannewitzParticipantAvantis connects via Dante to another board? Do you have a screen shot of the Dante Controller perhaps? You sure you have a Dante card? It is NOT something that comes with the Avantis by default.
On a Mac, you need to NOT be on Wifi. You need Ethernet, and generally USB adapters work, but I’d check here (https://www.getdante.com/support/faq/dvs-usb-ethernet-adaptor-choice-for-macos-systems/) to make sure.
The Mac I have connected to Dante is a MacMini using it’s ethernet port on 10.226.70.20. Everything Dante lives on that subnet. Avantis is at 10.226.70.11, a Q-Sys Core Nano is at 10.226.70.13. I also have some Shure ULX-D stuff running to the Avantis over Dante. When I use my MacBook Pro, I use a USB C dongle that has ethernet, and set it to something in that IP Range and make sure all the Dante stuff uses that interface.
You also need a switch that supports Dante. I’ve been using the D-Link DGS-1210 series switches and they work great with Dante and Q-Sys.
2025/01/02 at 4:26 pm #128312KevinParticipantTo answer both:
– I am not using Wifi. I am not using USB.
– There is a switch that is supposed to be VLAN’d, but I am not wanting to trust it. This is not my configuration.
– Yes there is an added Dante Card on the Avantis.
– I dont know if the switch (assuming there is) on the card is set to share IP. I would rather buy a 2nd switch and isolate the networks physically. Any modern 1GB switch should work.As an IT guy, I am accustomed to configuring the IP or using DHCP…. I am trying to understand why the board shows (1) IP address. I am willing to scrap it all, just need to know. You list IPs, are those yours…. or default Dante’s one has no choice on?
Therefore, if I add a switch, I need to configure all the Dante for the same subnet.
Its been a couple weeks since I dove in, but I will upload some pix.
2025/01/02 at 4:47 pm #128314KevinParticipantSet 1
2025/01/02 at 5:05 pm #128315KevinParticipantSo somehow the admin blocked my upload.
Lets start from scratch. Will the Avantis show a software configurable option for both the network and Dante, if I pull the card and set the switch? Will this affect my stage input boxes that use ethernet?
2025/01/02 at 6:03 pm #128319SteffenRParticipant>> I dont know if the switch (assuming there is) on the card is set to share IP <<
Not a real switch on the card. The Dante ports can act as a redundant pair of NIC’s. The control network port on the Dante card carries no Dante signals.
>> I am trying to understand why the board shows (1) IP address. <<
The board itself has only one network connection, connected to the internal switch of the Avantis.
The Dante devices should be on their own network.
Physically. They are separate devices, normally not part of the Avantis network.DANTE IS CONFIGURED WITH DANTE CONTROLLER! ALWAYS !!!
2025/01/02 at 7:46 pm #128323KevinParticipant“DANTE IS CONFIGURED WITH DANTE CONTROLLER! ALWAYS !!!”
As far as I can tell, I am the first to install Dante Controller. And it is very confused… yet it works. Thats my dilemma.
I guess I need to bring in another switch and separate it… then see what the controller app says. -
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